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Cutler admits that there are still minor problems to be ironed out, but he believes the new setup will relieve the compulsory aspect of P.T. that freshmen find odious. In fact, success of the coupons rests heavily on an honor system, which seems to be the only obstacle to ballot-stuffing on behalf of one's friends...
...after next week. In More Stately Mansions, Bergman will play an odious matriarch battling her daughter-in-law for her son. Equally important is the chance to perform a "good play" by "America's greatest playwright, one whose work the people ought to be seeing." Despite her personal tranquillity, Bergman is worried about "a world where there can be no peace, where people are continuously hurting each other...
Fear of Resentment. "As odious as his name may be to millions of Africans," said the East African Standard in Nairobi, "it is no light matter to send a man to certain death with a stroke of the pen." Calling for a "fair trial" for Tshombe, the Tanzania Standard warned the Congo that its actions could "further tarnish Africa's image. It could provide a precedent to hang like a sword of Damocles over other African leaders who openly support what, in effect, amounts to a blood lust." The U.S. has interceded with Congo President Joseph Mobutu to spare...
...original view of the part in the essay "On Playing the Role of Shylock," which he wrote for the 1958 Laurel edition of the work, and which I highly recommend. Carnovsky's 1967 Shylock is a considerably less sympathetic figure than the 1957 one, though by no means thoroughly odious. This change is quite in keeping with Kahn's new approach to the rest of the dramatis personae...
...Terre Haute last week, he called the roll of evils he is against: big government, Communism, crime, the Supreme Court, federal civil rights legislation and "intellectual morons," an apparently large group of citizens that seems to include professors, liberals, editors, beatniks, Vietniks, and anyone else who finds Wallace odious and is either a college graduate or would allow his daughter to marry...